Oscar Meyer
Limp Gawd
- Joined
- Oct 9, 2009
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- 326
I couldn't agree more with ya. I was rocking a 8800 GTX Ultra for 2+ years until it fried. Considering I paid 750 bucks for it, And nowadays a card less than half that price will deliver 3+ times performance, I just had to go with what's bang for buck at the time. If the Ultra didn't die, I'd probabaly wait for nvidia's response to 5800's. I'm still trying to make my cpu/mobo last as long as I can til new games that come out where I'll have to upgrade. Hope it'll be a few years....I might just try that oven baking thing on my Ultra, and who knows, if it works I'll have something to use for physx.as a person who is still rockin 8800GTX SLI,i feel this thread has brought to light that people think just because tech is "old" it doesnt run new things very well.
first off F crysis! nobody cares about this sub par fps with "amazing graphics".
i can run dragons age and borderlands at 1600x1200 and 1680x1050 (dual mon LCD+CRT) with everything turned up just fine with very minimal <30fps drops. RE5 runs at a solid 55fps and SF4 also runs in the 60-80fps range.
these cards have lasted me far longer then i would think a card or set of cards would these days, in fact at over 3 years old they have past how long i ran my voodoo2 SLI.
i forsee myself getting a new card soon but that just means i build a new box to put that in and keep this as a system for inpromptu lan partys and such.